TY - JOUR AB - Attempts to create measures of national wellbeing and progress have a long history. Inthe UK, they go back at least as far as the 1790s, with Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Accountof Scotland. More recently, worldwide interest has led to the creation of a number of indicesseeking to go beyond familiar economic measures like GDP. We review the MeasuringNational Well-being development programme of the UK’s Office for National Statistics, andexplore some of the challenges which need to be faced to bring wider measures into use.These include: the importance of getting the measures adopted as policy drivers; how tochallenge the continuing dominance of economic measures; sustainability and environmentalissues; international comparability; and methodological statistical questions. AU - Allin,P AU - Hand,DJ DO - 10.1111/rssa.12188 EP - 43 PY - 2017/// SN - 0964-1998 SP - 3 TI - New statistics for old? -measuring the wellbeing of the UK T2 - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A - Statistics in Society UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12188 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28812 VL - 180 ER -